Jake Gyllenhaal

New Delhi, Acting is all about using one's skills to try new things, says Hollywood star Jake Gyllenhaal, who didn't mind sweating it out in the gym to play a former UFC boxer in his new film "Road House". HT Image In a career of over 20 years, the actor has created a rich tapestry of diverse performances with films such as "Brokeback Mountain", "Zodiac", "Source Code", "Prisoners", "Nightcrawler", "Nocturnal Animals", "Enemy", "Spider-Man: Far From Home" and "Ambulance". Hindustan Times - your fastest…

Chef and restaurateur Jose Andrés inviting actors Jamie Lee Curtis, Bryan Cranston and O'Shea Jackson Jr. over for dinner in a new TV special and Jake Gyllenhaal starring in an update of the pulpy cult classic “Road House” are some of the new television, movies, music and games headed to a device near you.Also among the streaming offerings worth your time as selected by The Associated Press' entertainment journalists: Shakira releases her first album in seven years, Paul Simon gets an expansive two-part documentary on…

Los Angeles, Jake Gyllenhaal, who lost out the role of Batman to Christian Bale in Christopher Nolan's "Dark Knight" trilogy, says it would be an honour for him to play the popular superhero from DC Comics. HT Image The actor, currently promoting the Prime Video action movie "Road House", was asked if he was still interested in playing Batman. Hindustan Times - your fastest source for breaking news! Read now. In his response, Gyllenhaal said, "Oh, man. That's a classic . It's an honour." Calling the…

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You remember Road House, right? The 1989 movie where Patrick Swayze is a professional New York City bouncer imported to Missouri to work at the most raucous road house bar in the Show Me State? The kind of film in which the hero does tai chi, reads philosophy and coos Zen koans like “Pain don’t hurt,” and the bad guy utters bon mots like, “I used to fuck guys like you in prison?” (It was a different time.) Direct by the appropriately named Rowdy Harrington, this finely aged slice of cinematic Velveeta remains the…

The remake of the 1989 film arrives on Prime Video on March 21, following its South by Southwest premiere The 1989 film Road House gets transported from Missouri to Florida in the first official trailer for Prime Video‘s Road House. In place of Patrick Swayze’s James Dalton, Jake Gyllenhaal leads the film as Edward Dalton, an ex-UFC fighter helping to keep rowdy clientele at a Florida Keys roadhouse in check. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLn0qFdvfM4 “He acts all nice and shit, like…

The Mummy Official Trailer #1 - Brendan Fraser Movie (1999) HDNo one since Indy and Marion have done it like Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz as Rick and Evie in The Mummy movies. The action, the horror, the quests, those alarming CGI sandstorm faces, the gross-out beetles, the bickering, and the romance was all there. Losing Fraser and Weisz (sorry, the Rock in The Scorpion King) really fumbled what could have been Universal’s Indiana Jones competitor—though we’re still hoping the duo will return for a new Mummy adventure…

Image: Marvel StudiosEarlier in the week, Marvel finally pulled back the curtain on Secret Invasion, one of the many Disney+ shows they’ve still got in the pipeline. Based on a 2008 comic book event from Brian Michael Bendis and Lenil Francis Yu, the series will see a returning Nick Fury discover that the Skrulls from Captain Marvel have been putting themselves in powerful positions all over the world. Meaning we’re once again in the paranoid espionage thriller space, something the MCU hasn’t done in a couple of years,…

Jake Gyllenhaal, who plays Searcher Clade in Strange World, said that he felt a ‘fated connection’ to the Don Hall-directed animated film because of the way it treats family as a ‘microcosm’ for the world. (Also read: Jake Gyllenhaal: Skill of Bollywood actors is unsurpassed, we don’t have that in Hollywood)For the Academy award-nominated actor, what was most interesting about the film was how the focus was on three generations and how they connected — or not. He explains, “When they pitched me the story of Strange…

Image: DisneyWalt Disney Animation Studios’ Strange World will be hitting home media platforms just in time for the holidays. And with the digital release on December 23, animation fans will be able to unlock special features not yet available on Disney+, where the film will also be streaming.Directed by Don Hall and written by Qui Nguyen (the filmmakers behind Raya and the Last Dragon), Strange World centers on the Clade family of explorers as they set off on a big adventure that thrusts them into an unknown territory…